Essay - the Happiest Days of Your Life

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The happiest days of your life Parents today have full control over their children, and that's a problem because they do not always know what is best for them. Most humans who have control over something organic, whether it is an animal, plant or a human child, tend to believe they know better than them. Take for an example; about 2 months back a specific American girl, Makayla Sault, was concluded to have cancer. Makayla had a vision where Jesus came to her, and said the chemo was the way she could get cured. Only faith could save her. So she told her parents, and of course they took it into their own hands, and refused to have her cured by science, instead they had faith that she would get cured with the help of Jesus. She eventually died of cancer, and the parents blamed society for not having faith in her. Stupidity set aside, how much control should parents have over their children? In the novel "The Happiest days of your life" the boy's parents are the ones taking the decisions for him. They believe they know what is best for the kid, and choose to bring the boy into this hellish boarding school. source of makayla sault's death: http://www.cbc.ca/news/aboriginal/makayla-sault-girl-who-refused-chemo-for-leukemia-dies-1.2829885 The death of Tommy Grimes The expectations parents love to give their children are so unrealistic. Between "always be in a good mood" to "never make mistakes", there are some pretty crazy expectations. But the craziest of them all is "think on my level", which I have personally gone through when I was about 12-14 years old. My father was really good at math and my mother was brilliant at English. So of course they had expectations that I would get high grades in those 2 particular classes. If I came with a 10, it was decent, 7 just barely acceptable, 4 not even remotely close to being accepted. And it keeps getting better the lower

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